<p>I saw a woman standing up and her son walked over to her took her breast put of her bra and started breast feeding. Just like the time cover. Yes she was French. It was absurd. Beyond icky</p>
<p>My daughter had four teeth at four months. She survived very well with a bottle, and was off bottle at a year. </p>
<p>Mine barely used pacifiers, strollers were only used in rare occasions, we walked, and no thumb sucking. I hate seeing kids thumb sucking and in strollers with legs touching the ground. Yes, some kids do have phsysical reasons, but most don’t need to be pushed everywhere.</p>
<p>DonnaL–love it. my 22 y old s, and 20 yr old d also will still hang out on the couch to bond…it’s really very special. loved the final scene in the Descendants, with George Clooney as widower sitting close to his daughter eating ice cream on the couch…seemed he had learned by the end of the film how to be there for his kids, simply be with them in those ordinary moments of physical closeness. of course ice cream does help ;)</p>
<p>I did love it over Christmas when younger D was house sitting, while older D went back east to celebrate with her bf family. ( they take turns).
We really don’t watch tv at home, but we had a Che Guevara marathon all on the couch & with their dog as well! ;)</p>
<p>See another example of differences. My D2 sucked her thumb, she would twirl her or my hair She did it until age 5 or so. She would get sick frequently, strep and the like. I told her if she stopped sucking her thumb she wouldnt get sick so much. She continued until she said the thumb told her to stop. no fuss angst or muss. I was alittle concerned about her 'hearing voices" but she is fine LOL</p>
<p>I nursed both my sons, S1 for 13 months and S2 for 11 months. They both stopped when they were ready, and in the last couple of week were only doing so at bed time or first thing in the morning, not throughout the day. S1 had only breast milk for 7 months.</p>
It is wonderful! Mine is still at the age where he doesn’t quite have himself together, so it surprises me that he would do something teaseable. Seems not to care, though, which is really comforting to me. I find this a very scary age. I hope I get through it as successfully as you have, Donna.</p>
<p>Yes, you are right. I read the article and it seems many of the injuries resulted from toddlers running with sippy cups. I can see how that is possible.</p>
<p>Our children were all born within less than four years with the younger two being slightly over a year apart. They were extremely curious and could come up with some very creative ways to injure themselves or cause me moments of panic. They were well-behaved and weren’t bad, just fearless and extremely curious. I was trying to imagine how they managed to escape sippy cup injuries unless they involved the kind with straws which would have definitely been a problem at our house.:)</p>
<p>And in regards to snuggling, mine are all teens now with the oldest being a college sophomore and they all still love to snuggle, give public kisses, and even hold my hand from time to time. It makes the moments of panic all well worth it. I will try to remind myself of that as I continue teaching the last one to drive…yikes!:)</p>
<p>I know a lot of parents who should just tack that picture onto the walls since their adult kids are still drinking at the parnetal teat, albeit in a figurative sense.</p>
<p>Extended breastfeeding is not going to prevent sippy cup injuries. </p>
<p>Kids who breastfeed beyond a year usually use sippy cups, too. They’re breastfeeding mainly for comfort and only a few times a day. Most of their liquids come from the sippy cup.</p>
<p>During infancy, at least one of my kids, if not more, put a hand on the other breast while nursing. I thought it very sweet like they were indicating they intended to have a full meal and I should settle in. They didn’t do that as they got older. </p>
<p>Just because people might not want to see an older child nurse doesn’t make it not okay for them to do it. There are all kinds of things I don’t want to see that are perfectly appropriate. Kids don’t want to see their parents having sex and most would agree they shouldn’t – doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with with their parents doing it behind closed doors. Something intimate making us uncomfortable doesn’t mean that act is somehow inappropriate. It just may mean it should be private.</p>
<p>During infancy, at least one of my kids, if not more, put a hand on the other breast while nursing. I thought it very sweet like they were indicating they intended to have a full meal and I should settle in.</p>
<p>Ah…sooooo sweet. They were putting in their order. Love it. (this thread is making me miss nursing! )</p>
<p>Me too! I loved nursing my babies. I nursed one child for a year and the other for six months. The first one reluctantly gave up the breast when I needed a break (physically and logistically due to work/daycare matters). The second one was ginormous and seemed to figure out on his own that he needed more than I could provide.<br>
As much as I hated stopping at 6 months, I was glad to be free of the clunky electric breast pump and the need to pump midday, store the milk in a fridge, etc. </p>
<p>With regard to the Time cover: having lived in several other countries, I find it less “odd” to see an older child nurse. I do think that toddlers need to learn to develop some independence, however, and as part of their emotional growth. I think Time accomplished exactly what they intended. We are all talking about the magazine.</p>
<p>Neither of my kids drank from a sippy cup and both nursed well beyond a year. Actually I would think that nursing rather than bottle would promote the habit of drinking your milk in place rather than milling around with bottle, pacifier, cup. When they were able to sit in a high chair I helped them hold the cup as they gripped it and later they just drank from a normal cup. My theory was that a regular cup eliminated the dropping off the edge thing or shaking upside down and waving around. I won’t make a blanket statement about that relative to all kids, but it worked well for us.</p>
<p>I think my son still did at that age, at least when we were in the car. </p>
<p>I don’t think they had sippy cups back when I was a small child. I do have a very clear memory of being about 3 years old and trying to drink something from a regular cup while lying in bed, and getting it all over myself as it poured down my chin instead of into my mouth. I was very annoyed!</p>
<p>My kid must have given up sippy cups around 3-4. In the preschool, they didn’t bother with a sippy cup. They used paper cups.</p>
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<p>Exactly. By 2, toddlers walk, talk, scribble, hum, drum… They have many means for self expression. Wouldn’t you say it’s about time they knew to comfort in a more sophisticated manner? Lynch me if you like, I still think 3-4 year olds nursing creepy.</p>
<p>Others might call my sippy cup a wine glass.</p>
<p>I agree with Iglooo, I don’t understand why breastfeeding is necessary for comfort. Our kids were in our arms, laps, snuggling with us all the time for comfort. Both mom and dad. Nestled in our arms, reading books, watching movies, sleeping. Till as late in their years as they’d allow us. Now they snuggle with their little dogs the way we did with them. No breasts required.</p>
<p>I have to agree with Igloo. Nursing beyond 2 is just weird to me. I don’t care if mothers decide to do it… it’s just weird in my own personal opinion. </p>
<p>Then again, I’m not going to lie, breastfeeding as a whole seems a little weird to me. It is what it is. That’s not to say I won’t breastfeed if I ever have children.</p>
<p>Again, I never breastfed. I also never had a problem being snuggly with my parents when I was young. Quite frankly though, no one in my family is much of a cuddler. I like to cuddle with my dog but not so much with humans. My family and I rarely kissed each other either. It’s just how we are. We’re exceptionally close, we just show it in other ways.</p>
Love it. (this thread is making me miss nursing! )</p>